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176 pages of results. 221. Anchors Aweig [Journals] [Kronos]
... SIS Review will already be familiar with this quotation from the eminent Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner, typifying the dilemma of Near Eastern archaeologists over Sothic dating.(1 ) Despite the manifest weaknesses of the Sothic dating theory, and although ... a course that would have serious consequences for the history, not of Egypt alone, but of the entire Middle East " Readers of KRONOS and the SIS Review will already be familiar with this quotation from the eminent Egyptologist Sir Alan ... , typifying the dilemma of Near Eastern archaeologists over Sothic dating.(1 ) Despite the manifest weaknesses of the Sothic dating theory, and although it is exceedingly difficult to find an Egyptologist who will actually defend it, Sothic dates ...
222. The Danunians and the Velikovsky Revision [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... will bring to the attention of Velikovskian scholars the insight of one of the smaller groups of people regarding the ancient Near East, the Danunians of Eastern Cilicia. In the late 1940's there was found at Karatepe in Eastern Cilicia a ... inscription (late Hittite hieroglyphic and Phoenician) that brought into focus a people who were scarcely known before.1 This inscription, dated tentatively around -725, states that a king of the Danunians named ztwd in Phoenician and Asitawandas in ... hieroglyphic (which I think close to Lydian for a reason to be explained below) established a city called ztwdy in Phoenician and Asitawandawa in Hittite hieroglyphic.2 The presence of Danunians in that region, Eastern Cilicia, can be ...
223. The el-Amarna Letters and the New Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... INTRODUCTION The Amarna Letters and Chronology In the 1880's one of the greatest discoveries ever made in the field of ancient Near Eastern history took place in middle Egypt at the then little-known site of el-Amarna. It was a chance find, ... Akhenaten. The archive comprises letters exchanged by the pharaohs of the Amarna period with the major kings of the Near East and also the lesser, vassal states in Palestine and Syria. The first interesting fact learnt by Egyptologists was that ... correspondence had been in Akkadian (including the letters from Egypt). This showed that Akkadian was the lingua franca of the Near Eastern Late Bronze Age, in much the same way that Aramaic was used as the principal language of ...
224. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... technology, giving a number of reasons why he believed on technical grounds that the generally accepted chronology of the ancient Near East for the period of the Bronze Age (c . 3000-1200 BC on conventional dating) was erroneous. He ... several general criticisms of archaeologists. First, most of them had a "frontier complex" which made them reluctant to look beyond their own, sometimes very narrow, specialist fields. Secondly, while there was a good deal of ... the Near East was so strong that diffusionists such as GORDON CHILDE had argued that metallurgy originated there and spread into eastern and central Europe via the Danube. In fact, as Mr Dayton had shown in a paper on the problem ...
225. A Critique of "Ramses II and His Time" [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of the XVIIIth Dynasty. Abbreviations used in this section are: - AJA American Journal of Archaeology. ANET Ancient Near Eastern Texts relating to the Old Testament (J . B. Pritchard, ed.), Princeton, 1950 ... the historical arguments for this part of Velikovsky's reconstruction will really appear satisfactory to scholars and students of the ancient Near East. Velikovsky's version of the struggle between Egypt of the XXVIth Dynasty and the Neo-Babylonian Empire, for which he draws ... the records of the XIXth Dynasty and the Hittite Empire as well, is a magnificent historical exercise, excitingly written and full of intriguing and apparently plausible parallels. But how valid is the model he presents for this part of his ...
226. Bronze Age Destructions in the Near East [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Review Vol IV No 4 (Spring 1980) Home | Issue Contents Bronze Age Destructions in the Near East Geoffrey Gammon Geoffrey Gammon has an Honours B.A . in History from London University and is currently studying ... a Diploma in Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, London. He is a Council member of the Society and convener of its Ancient History Study Group. The extensive work of the eminent French archaeologist Claude Schaeffer, correlating the chronology ... point was the stratigraphy of Ras Shamra itself, which is a tell on the north Syrian coast almost opposite the eastern tip of Cyprus. He identified three main strata - which he labelled Ugarit Récent, Moyen and Ancien - corresponding ...
227. Twelfth Or Fourth Century?. Part I Ch.1 (Peoples of the Sea) [Velikovsky]
... ultimate victory, are preserved in Egypt. But of the sweep of the invading troops across the lands of the Near East before their arrival at the frontier of Egypt nothing is known from any historical source, literary or archaeological. ... time of great convulsions in the life of nations around the eastern Mediterranean, the region usually known as the Ancient East. This scheme has it that out of the gloom of the north hordes of peoples swept over the lands of ... of the twelfth century before the current era as a time of great convulsions in the life of nations around the eastern Mediterranean, the region usually known as the Ancient East. This scheme has it that out of the gloom of ...
228. Forum Part Two [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of the human race" [5 ]. What we are witnessing is continuously growing interest in cosmic impacts, Near Earth Objects (NEOs) and catastrophism. For the first time since the notorious Velikovsky Affair' 40 years ago ... origin of metallurgy, the construction of the Egyptian pyramids, the destructions of the Bronze Age civilisations in the Near East and the Mediterranean, the collapse of the Roman Empire, the rise of Judaism and Islam, etc) should ... Similar questions arise regarding the Americas and China, the two most important civilisations whose chronologies do not depend on Near Eastern/Biblical dating systems. Why did their civilisations, their cosmic mythologies and dragon-inspired iconographies only emerge 1500 years later ...
229. Chapter 17 Corroboration, Convergence, Analysis [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... : The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Dover ed. (NY 1967) Burney, Charles: The Ancient Near East (Cornell NY 1977) Burt, Olive W.: The Horse in America (NY 1975) Cairns-Smith ... Atlas of World Archaeology, (London 2002) Bahn, Paul G.: The Archaeology Detectives (Lewes, East Sussex, England, 2001) Bates, Richard, and Jackson, J.A ., eds.: ... ) Derricourt, Robin M.: "Radiocarbon Chronology for Egypt and N. Africa," Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 42, no. 4 (1983) Diamond, Jared: Gun Germs and Steel ( ...
230. Sins Of The Father [Journals] [Aeon]
... ). [1 ] The underlying goal of Pillars of the Past is to eliminate some 1500 years from ancient Near Eastern history as conventionally understood. Ginenthal did not derive this number from Velikovsky- such a reduction would make a ... (c . 700-550 BCE). Insofar as Mitanni played a prominent role in the history of the ancient Near East during the middle of the second millennium BCE, this hypothesis, if true, is sweeping in its implications. ... in defense of Heinsohn and Sweeney's radical reconstruction, Ginenthal begins- where else?- by quoting Velikovsky: "What then of the strata of the Medes and Mitanni? What do they tell us with regard to Velikovsky, Heinsohn ...
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